Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellows

Political Science, University of Pennsylvania - Mirrors of Modernization: The American Reflection in Turkey

History, Yale University - Baptism by Fire: The Making and Remaking of Madness in Cuba, 1899-1980

History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh - Mechanical Epistemology and Mixed Mathematics: Descartes’ Problems and Hobbes’ Unity

American Studies, Brown University - Consuming Labor: Migration and Mobility of Chinese Restaurant Workers in New York City, 1894-1965

Sociology, University of California, Berkeley - Negotiating Capitalism, Community, and Gender: Power and Agency in Two Streams of Mexican Migration

History, Harvard University - The Threat of the Desert: Colonial Climatology, Theories of Desiccation, and Climate Engineering, 1870-1950

English Literature, University of Texas, Austin - Shakespeare's Networks

American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California - Bigger Stadiums, Better Futures? The Cultural Politics of Difference and Civic Identity in Postwar Urban Imaginaries

Asian Studies (South Asia; Religion), University of Texas, Austin - The Living Tradition of Hagiography in the Vallabh Sect of Contemporary Gujarat

Anthropology, Boston University - Dying Socialist in Capitalist Shanghai: Ritual, Governance, and Subject Formation in Urban China’s Modern Funeral Industry

Musicology, Princeton University - The Operetta Empire: Viennese Music Theater and Austrian Identity, 1900-1935

Anthropology, Cornell University - Securing the Present, Unsettling the Past: Trade and Control on the Swahili Coast

Ethnomusicology, University of California, Berkeley - Economies and Ontologies of Voice in the Transnational Circulation of Tuvan ‘Khöömei’ Throat-Singing, 1981-2013

English, University of Notre Dame - Closing the Book on Chaucer: Medieval Theories of Ending and the Ends of Chaucerian Narrative

History, Princeton University - Islamic Culture in the European Enlightenment

Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Understanding Epistemic Normativity

English Literature, University of Pennsylvania - Proverbial Modernism: Difficult Literature and the Self-Help Hermeneutic

Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles - Schooling, Islamization, and Religious Mobilization in Turkey

History, Temple University - Gifted Women and Skilled Practitioners: Gender and Healing Authority in the Delaware Valley, 1740-1830

Cinema Studies, New York University - The Wild Child’s Desire: Cinema, Sexual Politics, and the Experimental Nation in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia

English, Stanford University - Producing and Litigating Satire, 1670-1760

Comparative Literature, Princeton University - Literature and the Limits of Consciousness in the Renaissance

English, University of Virginia - Remapping Insularity: Geographic Imagination in Medieval English Romance

History, Princeton University - The Enlightenment in Concert: The Concert Spirituel and Religious Music in Secular Spaces, 1725-1790

English, University of Illinois, Chicago - Auschwitz and the Plantation: Labor and Social Death in American Holocaust and Slavery Fiction

English, University of California, Santa Barbara - Gamer Trouble: The Dynamics of Difference in Video Games

Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley - Incorporating abstract and usage-based information: The effect of syntactic context on the production of morphemes

Art History, University of California, Los Angeles - Re-Placing Byzantium: Laskarid Urban Environments and the Landscape of Loss, 1204-1261

Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz - Catching Power: Science, Spiritual Work and Altered Solidarities in Trinidad

Philosophy, Yale University - Envy: Varieties, Evils, and Paradoxes

Political Science, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities - Empire of the People: The Ideology of Democratic Empire in the Antebellum United States

Communications, Columbia University - The Hidden Camera and the Aesthetics of Authenticity in Documentary Photography, 1880-1945

Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara - A Grammar of the Kazo Language in Yunnan, China

Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Promised Land: The politics of abandonment and the struggle for a new Detroit

Cultural Anthropology, Duke University - Regulating the Ocean: Piracy and Protection along the East African Coast

Cultural Studies and Film Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities - Burning Visions: The Iranian New Wave and the Politics of the Image, 1962-1979

Sociocultural Anthropology, Yale University - Divided Bodies: The Practice and Politics of Lyme Disease in the United States

English and Medieval Studies, University of California, Berkeley - Holding the Sacred: Discourses of Secrecy and Concealment in Early Medieval England, 600-1100

History, Northeastern University - The Global Levant: Making a Nation in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora, 1913-1939

Media Studies, University of Texas, Austin - Lucknow Screens: Cinema and the Everyday State in Postcolonial India

Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Betting the farm: Speculation, regulation, and the creation of a global farmland market

English, Northwestern University - Reading by Hand: Manuscript Poetry and Readerly Identities in Renaissance England

Political Science, University of Florida - The Political Foundations of Secession, Stability and Chaos: Russia, Moldova, and Ukraine

Musicology, Princeton University - George Balanchine in America: Institutions, Economics and Aesthetics of the Nonprofit Performing Arts, 1933-1954

History, Columbia University - To 'Know' the Nation: Statistics, Quantification, and State-Society Relations in the early People’s Republic of China, 1949-1959

Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University - Boundaries at work: practicing abortion care at the intersection of medicine and law in Senegal

English, Duke University - Forming Person: Narrative and Psychology in the Victorian Novel

History, Temple University - In the Jaws of the Lion: Loyalty and Liberty in Occupied Philadelphia

History of Art, University of California, Berkeley - Visualizing Stalinism: Photography of the Early GULags

History, Vanderbilt University - Mercantile Culture of the Slave Trade: Piracy and Broken Monopolies in the African Atlantic World, 1621-1720

Musicology, Princeton University - Sounding Resemblances: Music and Ritual in Late-Medieval Venice and its Maritime Colonies, 1204-1450

Art History, University of Chicago - Making Danish Modern, 1945-1960

History, University of California, Berkeley - Courtly Institutions, Politics, and Status in Early Imperial China, 206 BCE-9 CE

History-East Asia, Columbia University - Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries and the Medical Marketplace of Qing China

Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - On the Backs of Turtles: A Critical Geography of Evolution in the Galápagos Islands

Anthropology, Brown University - Sheltered Lives: Sex, God, and Mobility in Nigeria's Counter-Trafficking Programs

Religion, Princeton University - Waiting for Darkness: Apocalyptic Eschatology in Early Medieval China

History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - To Be My Own Mistress: How Women in Jamaica Shaped the British Empire, 1660-1760

English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University - Black Radicalism in Korea: The Poetics of Overlapping Dispossessions in Afro-Korean Literary Intersections, 1910-1953

History, Anthropology, and STS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Remaking Mestizaje in the Age of the Biological: An Ethnography of Biological Invasion and Nation-Building in Mexico

History, University of Chicago - The Value of a Ruble: A Social History of Money in Postwar Soviet Russia, 1945-1964

History, University of California, Riverside - Beyond School Walls: Labor, Mobility, and Indian Education in Southern California, 1902-1940

History, University of California, Berkeley - The Paradox of Plenty and Poverty: A Political Economy of Food in Egypt, India, and the U.S., 1870s-1970s

History, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Workers United: The Labor Movement and the Shifting U.S. Economy, 1950s-1980s

History and Middle Eastern Studies, New York University - State of the Field: Agrarian Transformation, Colonial Rule, and the Politics of Material Wealth in Egypt, 1882-1922

English, University of California, Berkeley - Asia’s Unreliability: Literary and Historical Positings of the Asian Human from the American Century to the Pacific Century

American Studies, New York University - Investing for Impact: Philanthrocapitalism and the Rise of Ethical Finance

English, University of Pennsylvania - Fictions of Territoriality: Legal and Literary Narratives of U.S. Imperial Contestation Zones, 1844-1914

English, Boston University - The Garden Politic: Botany, Horticulture, and Domestic Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature